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package com.google.common.io;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

/**
 * A test factory for byte or char sources or sinks. In addition to creating sources or sinks, the
 * factory specifies what content should be expected to be read from a source or contained in a sink
 * given the content data that was used to create the source or that was written to the sink.
 *
 * <p>A single {@code SourceSinkFactory} implementation generally corresponds to one specific way of
 * creating a source or sink, such as {@link Files#asByteSource(File)}. Implementations of {@code
 * SourceSinkFactory} for common.io are found in {@link SourceSinkFactories}.
 *
 * @param <S> the source or sink type
 * @param <T> the data type (byte[] or String)
 * @author Colin Decker
 */
public interface SourceSinkFactory<S, T>
{

    /**
     * Returns the data to expect the source or sink to contain given the data that was used to create
     * the source or written to the sink. Typically, this will just return the input directly, but in
     * some cases it may alter the input. For example, if the factory returns a sliced view of a
     * source created with some given bytes, this method would return a subsequence of the given
     * (byte[]) data.
     */
    T getExpected(T data);

    /**
     * Cleans up anything created when creating the source or sink.
     */
    public abstract void tearDown() throws IOException;

    /**
     * Factory for byte or char sources.
     */
    public interface SourceFactory<S, T> extends SourceSinkFactory<S, T>
    {

        /**
         * Creates a new source containing some or all of the given data.
         */
        S createSource(T data) throws IOException;
    }

    /**
     * Factory for byte or char sinks.
     */
    public interface SinkFactory<S, T> extends SourceSinkFactory<S, T>
    {

        /**
         * Creates a new sink.
         */
        S createSink() throws IOException;

        /**
         * Gets the current content of the created sink.
         */
        T getSinkContents() throws IOException;
    }

    /**
     * Factory for {@link ByteSource} instances.
     */
    public interface ByteSourceFactory extends SourceFactory<ByteSource, byte[]>
    {
    }

    /**
     * Factory for {@link ByteSink} instances.
     */
    public interface ByteSinkFactory extends SinkFactory<ByteSink, byte[]>
    {
    }

    /**
     * Factory for {@link CharSource} instances.
     */
    public interface CharSourceFactory extends SourceFactory<CharSource, String>
    {
    }

    /**
     * Factory for {@link CharSink} instances.
     */
    public interface CharSinkFactory extends SinkFactory<CharSink, String>
    {
    }
}
